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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 21:11:36 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

   • Neil Brown
   @neil Could even write that HTML file in record time with LibreOffice as it can save to that format.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 21:11:30 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Neil Brown
     @neil That said for most businesses it's likely the easiest to just rent a managed wordpress, this way they don't have to explain file uploads to anyone who'd need to edit the site. (Kind of awkward what's common knowledge for people…)
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     Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 21:47:20 JST Raven667

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     • Neil Brown

     @lanodan @neil This is something that a small army of small web developers can make a living on too. I used to room with a guy who made just these kinds of sites for small businesses, just enough PHP so the owner could post events or list their drink specials but mostly static designs using the colors and images. They kept themselves in beer money and rent (tbf many of their clients were bars and paid in-kind) as basically a human-powered Squarespace/Wix, without the complexity.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 21:55:06 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Raven667
     @raven667 @neil True, that said it looks like most of the local web agencies these days tend to heavily base themselves on wordpress, which makes sense as it's much less work to do.
     
     And of course for businesses having a bit of design work done likely helps a lot to avoid looking like a generic website (even if I've seen way too many generic bootstrap sites).
     But design doesn't means you need a whole bunch of frameworks, specially in the shipped version.
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     Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 21:55:07 JST Raven667

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     • Neil Brown

     @lanodan @neil We don't really need large monopoly businesses squeezing all the value (and then enshittifying) out to themselves when the same money could buy a whole lot of distributed capacity and expertise as well as a more thriving economy, rich shareholders only can buy so much shit, whereas well-supported workers can in turn support more themselves.